Renewable Energies, Power Systems and Green Inclusive Economy

REPS & GIE-2018

23-24 April, in High School of Technology ESTC, Casablanca, MOROCCO

WHAT ABOUT (REPS & GIE‐2018)

"ICT for Regional Development" (TICDev), University Hassan II of Casablanca (UH2C) Morocco, Research Institute in Solar Energy and New Energies (IRESEN) & National Research University "Moscow Power Engineering Institute"(MPEI)- Federation of Russia organize International Conference on Renewable Energies, Power Systems and Green Inclusive Economy (REPS & GIE-2018) in partnership with “Research Centre on Valorization of national Materials for the Protection of the Environment by Optimizing the Couplings of Renewable Energy Technologies and Treatment Processes of Water and Industrial Effluents”-UH2C and Research Centre GreenTIC-UH2C on 23-24 April 2018, CASABLANCA - MOROCCO.

Following the success of the two previous editions of the international colloquium "Renewable Energies and Green Jobs" as well as its interest to the scientific community and its impact on the promotion of renewable energies and in particular their impact on implementing green inclusive economy and sustainable development, the scientific and organizing committees have decided to transform it into an international conference under the theme of "Renewable Energies, Power Systems and Green Inclusive Economy" (REPS & GIE‐2018)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Carmen Nastase
The impacts of local community-based initiatives in sustainability

Dave Watson
Smart grids living labs

Dr Ramalatha Marimuthu has been in teaching for 31 years and she has published six technical books and more than thirty research papers in international conferences and journals. She also guides the students in developing unique solutions for social problems like special needs and women empowerment. She has delivered lectures on assistive technology in universities and conferences all over the world and was invited to the Google Headquarters, Mountainview, California to deliver a speech on her research in assistive technology for people with special needs.
Dr Marimuthu is a senior member of IEEE and founder chair of Madras IEEE Women in Engineering Affinity group (2007 – 2014). She was R10 WIE Coordinator for 2008-2010 and Chair, the IEEE Women in Engineering Committee for 2011 and 2012. She launched an exclusive project “Sangamam” for the transfer of technology to rural areas. Based on her work to improve the quality of life for the rural society she was awarded the IEEE MGA Achievement Award, 2008 and the “Life Time Achiever Award” by the Lions Club International, 2009 and the Mentor award by the Secretariate for the Disabled, the Government of Tamilnadu in 2009, IEEE MGA Leadership Award 2012 and Anita Borg Institute Change Agent Award 2012. She was awarded the “Systers Pass it on Award 2014” by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and the “Inspiring Member of the Year 2016" by IEEE Women in Engineering.

Parthasarathy Subashini received a B.Sc (Mathematics) degree from Gobi Arts College, Bharathiar University, TamilNadu, India in 1990 and M.CA degree from the same in 1993. She has also received qualified degree of M.Phil and Ph.D respectively in Computer Science in year 1998 and 2009 from Avinashilingam University for Women, Tamil Nadu, India. From 1994 to till date, she works as Professor in the Department of Computer Science of Avinashilingam University.
Professor Subashini’s research has spanned a large number of disciplines like Image analysis, Pattern recognition, Neural networks, and Computational Intelligence. Concurrently, she contributed to several fields of mathematics, especially Nature inspired computing. She has authored or co-authored 1 Book, 4 Book chapters, 1 Monograph, 145 papers, including IEEE, Springer’s in various international, national journals and conferences. In course of her research and teaching, Professor Subashini has mentored over a hundred of post graduate students and guiding several doctoral students. She has held positions as reviewer, chairpersons among different peer reviewed journals. Under her supervision, she has 11 research projects of worth more than 2.5 crores from various funding agencies like Defence Research and Development Organization, Department of Science and Technology, SERB and University Grants Commission. She has visited many countries like USA, Morocco, Singapore, Malaysia, Dubai, France, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, Germany, Spain, Czech Republic, Rome and China for various knowledge sharing events. As a member of IEEE, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and IEEE Computer Society of India, She extended her contribution as IEEE Chair for Women in Computing under IEEE Computer Society of India Council in the year 2015-2016.
To add up her credit, recently she has contributed a Nature Inspired Optimization algorithm called ‘Synergistic Fibroblast Optimization(SFO)’. The codes and published articles are publicly available for the perusal of the Research community in MATLAB central, Researchgate and Adademia.edu.

• VP of Global Solutions at Power Standards Lab. Develops and deploys innovative power measurement technologies in advanced power quality and distributed energy resources applications. Designed and built advanced power grid testing and measurement systems, including the Grid Thumper™ and software for micro-synchrophasors.

• As an energy researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Dave was the key architect of the data acquisition and control systems for FLEXLAB®, an energy test-bed designed funded by the US Department of Energy. FLEXLAB® lets users develop and test energy-efficient building systems individually or as an integrated system, under real-world conditions.

• Authored original concept paper for OpenADR , now with over 130 companies and utilities in the OpenADR Alliance trade group.

Brown to Green Energy: Technoethical challenges in Sustainable Development

The talk addresses the ongoing war between the depleting sources of brown energy and the unexploited sources of green energy. For example, there are ecological views about the brown energy as the "concentrated pollution", which is released into the immediate environment due to ineffective processing. The techno ethical challenges preventing the efficient use of green energy for sustainable development are discussed with a perspective on the difficulties and opportunities using case studies.

Application of Computational Intelligence for Energy Optimization

A smart system is a cost-effective, sustainable and secure system in which production, infrastructures and consumption are integrated and coordinated through various services, active users and enabling technologies. Research, Development and Demonstrations (RD&D) are key enablers for the development of such smart systems. Research-based innovations and large-scale demonstration of new system solutions with multiple interacting sub-systems and components have to be carried out to enable a cost-efficient transition. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) will play an essential role in the transition of today’s electricity, gas and heating into the smart energy system of tomorrow. This transition not only requires each subsystem to be smart, it also requires them to be interconnected through conversion, storage or generation and demand technologies. Information and communication technology have to be deployed at all levels in order to coordinate the management and operation, including control of the underlying systems. Efficient tools and solutions for collecting, managing, analysing and utilizing large amounts of data in the smart system are needed to provide operational basis and decision support for more intelligent services. The transition of the energy system requires rethinking the energy management and the way energy is used. Nature Inspired Computing (NIC) paradigms are developed based on the observation of natural mechanism or natural principle as source of metaphor for problem solving. It is proven that computational models are developed based on the inspiration of nature providing required versatile system and produces promising results for solving numerous complex problems in both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. In the recent times, there is a need for the deployment of NIC based smart systems for efficient management of power consumption, power load estimation, demand side load management, valley filling, load shifting and optimal resource scheduling in intelligent buildings integrated in a distributed network. The development and implementation of NIC technique based smart energy systems and smart devices using Internet of Things (IoT) are rapidly increased in order to fulfil those aforementioned requirements. The keynote speech focuses on the above-mentioned need of the hour research and also discusses several openings of integrating NIC algorithms for the purpose of optimizing Energy profiling and consumption. A detailed case study for prediction of power load to improve the profit yields, sustainability, reliability and maximize the income of power plant production units subject to the constraints of high profitability and contract liabilities as well as environmental aspects along with economic concerns will also be discussed.

2. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication.

3. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered.

4. Papers must be 6 pages, including references, figures and tables, according the IEEE format

5. All papers should be submitted to the REPS&GIE‐2018 EDASonline submission website.

Context & Scope

This edition of REPS & GIE‐2018 focuses on renewable
energies and green inclusive economy. Perfectly in
harmony with the commitments of Morocco and the
Federations of Russia in the fields of energy, environment,
green jobs and sustainable development, the themes
addressed by this international conference are open to
academic researchers and industrialists.
This conference is part of a Moroccan‐Russian
partnership aiming at the pooling of knowledge and
technology transfer and is jointly organized by the UH2CTICDev
research Centre and the MPEI institute. Its main
objective is to select and present recent trends and
progress in the field of renewable energies and power
systems and the impact of these research fields on the
creation of green economy at local and global scales. It is
also a great opportunity to share the experiences and
strengthen the networking and collaboration between
academia and industry. It is also a step ahead trough the
implementation of Morocco commitments at COP 21 and
COP22, as well as the related commitments that have
been declared and acted upon by the majority of global
political decision‐makers.
To this end, keynotes, invited lectures, high quality
selected oral presentations and posters dealing with the
conference thematic geared towards sustainable
development will be presented. Issues related to scientific
and technical achievements in renewable energies fields as
well as their impacts on socio‐economic and socioprofessional
sectors, including green inclusive economy
promotion will be addressed.

All accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and indexed by IEEE Xplore Digital Library and Scopus .

For students outside the city of Casablanca, the organizing committee has secured Students accommodation at ESTC (limited number). for those interested please contact Pr. Elm. Kheddioui GSM:+(212)‐661‐20‐95‐56.

the organizing committee has also negotiated a preferential rate for booking at the Mogador Marina hotel . for persons interested please contact Prof. Elm. Kheddioui to retrieve the booking code.